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Want to have a nice day? Eat breakfast!

... glucose levels following an overnight fast or the consumption of only a sweet food or coffee or both. The brain is forced to depend on stored fat for functioning when glucose supply runs low as a result of skipping breakfast. Many people who skip breakfast to reduce calories do not understand that calories cons...

Women on HRT should avoid alcohol

...udy polled more than 44,000 women on their alcohol consumption pattern and on whether they were on HRT currently or had been previously. The researchers kept track of the women for 16 years and noted those who developed breast cancer during that time. Researchers found that the use of hormone replacement therap...

Colon cancer risk linked to genes causing Hemochromatosis

...tal factors such as iron supplementation, red-meat consumption and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory use. They found that subjects with at least one copy of either of the genes were 40% more likely to have colon cancer than those without. They also found that cancer risk increased with age and greater iron intake. ...

Drinking milk: Good or bad?

...found significant correlation between the A-1 milk consumption and childhood diabetes that requires treatment with insulin. Researchers indicated that Guernsey, in the Channel Islands, where cow’s milk has virtually no A-1 protein, had the third lowest rate of heart disease, behind Japan (which drinks little mi...

Hypertensives could benefit regular alcohol consumption

...nversely and independently correlated with alcohol consumption in hypertensives of both sexes. Researchers concluded that lipoprotein(a) is inversely and dose-dependently related to alcohol intake in hypertensive patients, and that this relationship was independent of the size distribution of apo(a) isoforms....

Tea helps protect Heart disease

...asis help protect patients from Heart disease. Tea consumption is associated with an increased rate of survival f...earchers found an inverse relationship between tea consumption and mortality. The heaviest tea drinkers had a significantly lower mortality rate than non-tea drink...

SARS impact could be devastating

...ow most of those families used the remittances for consumption buying cars and building new houses directly improving standards of living// and boosting their local economies. Among the throng of migrating laborers, an estimated 210,000 Thais left home to work abroad in 2000, as did 416,424 Indians, 376,000 Indo...

Bowel diseases linked to bug in milk

...s to the way milk and water are prepared for human consumption may be needed to fight "a public health tragedy" linked to a bug causing illness in hundreds of thousands of people, it was claimed last night. Researchers believe they have found the strongest association yet between a disease commonly found in liv...

Fitness Level Predicts Stroke

...ry fitness level is measured by the maximum oxygen consumption during physical activity. Investigators from the Research Institute of Public Health and the Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine in Finland //conducted the current study focusing on fitness level and the risk of stroke in men. The researc...

Benefits of Eating Whole Grains, Fruits and Vegetables

...whole grain, refined grain and fruit and vegetable consumption with the risks of heart disease and stroke. Whole ...whole grains, refined grains, fruits and vegetable consumption on the risk of a stroke. Thus Researchers point out that their data specifically suggests that whol...

Extra hormone found to cut appetite by a third

...ruited 24 people: 12 obese and 12 lean. Their food consumption was monitored twice, once after an intravenous dos...od diaries they kept. The PYY did not affect food consumption from 12 hours to 24 hours after the infusion.Without the extra dose, PYY levels were lower in the ob...

Teens break bones 'due to lack of milk'

...s increased soft drink consumption, decreased milk consumption or changing patterns of physical activity." In Britain, one third of schoolchildren consume less than the recommended three daily servings of dairy foods. Consumption of fizzy drinks has risen, with 60 per cent drinking at least one can a day and 22...

Black tea said to lower cholesterol

...e among several factors that have helped boost tea consumption in the last decade. Consumers also have been flooded with newer shapes, sizes and flavors that have made their way beyond traditional supermarkets and into drug and convenience stores. Scientists with the U.S. Department of Agriculture said they fou...

Selective eating just an evolutionary trait?

...tributing to the low levels of vegetable and fruit consumption in children ....

Link Between Alcohol and Decrease in Brain Size

... if a link existed between low to moderate alcohol consumption and a decrease in brain size of middle-aged adults. As alcohol consumption increased, the MRI identified increases in the spaces that do not contain brain tissue -- an indicat...

Chickens Found To Have High Levels of Arsenic

...in the United States have steadily increased their consumption of chicken from 32 pounds a year per person // in 1966 to 81 pounds per person in 2000. A new study shows young chickens have significant higher levels of arsenic than other poultry or meat. Arsenic is an approved animal feed supplement that farmers ...

Link Between Alcohol Consumption And Cardiovascular Disease

A new study shows alcohol consumption may benefit the cardiovascular system in seniors b...iological explanation for the link between alcohol consumption and heart disease....

Benefits Of The Worlds Most Widely Used Beverage

...r an inverse and graded association between coffee consumption and type-II (diabetes) independent of other risk factors," said researchers. They said the reasons for the apparent beneficial effects remain unclear, though it was possible that chlorogenic acid in coffee may indirectly help regulate blood glucose l...

New Virus : A Threat In the Future?

...searchers recommend a reduction in the hunting and consumption of bushmeat to prevent the spread to humans. To understand this threat, scientists studied 1,800 people from nine rural communities in Africa. Researchers say 1,100 of the people reported being exposed to blood or body fluids of primates from huntin...

Managing Patients With Psoriasis

...k of gout. Wine connoisseurs fear not. However the consumption of wine did not // appear to be a factor.Overall, ... risk 1.6 times. No increase was observed with the consumption of two 4-ounce glasses of wine. Gout is caused by deposits of uric acid often in joints of the fee...

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